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KnowHow for sale New manager's guide to planning, delegating and setting performance goals

New manager's guide to planning, delegating and setting performance goals

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Are you a new manager faced with the daunting task of planning, implementing and evaluating your team’s work for the first time? Whether you’re looking for quick learning tips, practical tools to help you in your new role or simply reassurance that you’re on the right track, this course is tailored to your needs as an early career manager.
Format: Four online training videos totalling over 30 minutes of training, downloadable resources and discussion forum moderated by the trainer, management consultant Michael Triff.

Course structure

  • strategic, operations and work planning
  • creating and using a work plan
  • delegating work
  • setting performance goals

Learning outcomes 

By the end of the course you'll be able to:

  • understand what strategic, operations and work plans are
  • translate an operations plan into a work plan
  • understand delegation and delegate work
  • set performance goals for your team.

Video one: Strategic, operations and work planning

 
  • Read a transcript for teaser one (Word, 748kb).
  • Teaser video one is 2mins 13s (the full video is 10mins 50s).
  • To watch this video and all the other videos in this course click on the 'Add to basket' button at the top of the page or get all our training from £9.99/month with our StudyPass subscription.
  • Video two: Creating and using a work plan

    Video three: Delegating work

    Video four: Setting performance goals

    Further resources

    When you buy this course you will also be able to download the following exciting extras:

    • a planning framework to help you connect strategic, operations, and work planning
    • a list of the most common planning terms and definitions
    • a strategic and operations planning worksheet to help you develop your priorities, goals, objectives, strategies, and deliverables
    • a work planning worksheet to enable you to construct work plans with your staff
    • a checklist for delegating work to help you make the most of delegation.

    Discussion forum

    If you have any questions about the information in these training videos go to our discussion forum and ask your trainer.

    About the trainer

    From 1994 to 2010, Michael worked in a range of international, national, and regional charities, both in the UK and USA, including ten years as a senior manager.  He currently serves as the Director of Philanthropy for Abingdon School. Through Careers for a Cause, he licenses resource packs to charities that wish to run their own in-house management training and leadership development programme or courses.

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